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Groupe de travail : Economie de l’Environnement

Le groupe de travail en économie de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles a pour objectif de permettre aux doctorants de présenter et de discuter de leurs travaux dans un cadre rigoureux mais informel. Le groupe de travail accueille aussi des présentations de travaux en cours des post-doctorants et des jeunes chercheurs ou maîtres de conférences. Ce séminaire bénéficie d’un soutien financier de l’Ecole d’Economie de Paris et du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne.

L’année 2011-2012 le groupe de travail se réunit en tant que « lunch seminar » de 12h30 à 13h30 un ou deux jeudis par mois (en alternance avec le séminaire parisien en économie de l’énergie et de l’environnement).

Lieu : Salle B2.1, la Maison des Sciences Economiques, 106-112, boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris. Métro : Campo Formio/Place d’Italie/Nationale.

Pour des questions, s’abonner à la liste de diffusion, faire des propositions de présentation : millock (at) univ-paris1.fr


Prochainement

  • Jeudi 8 mars 12:30-13:30
    Claire Gavard (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1) :
    What carbon price to support wind energy deployment in Europe ? Empirical analysis on wind energy in Denmark.
  • Jeudi 15 mars 12:30-13:30
    Carmen Camacho (CNRS, Université Paris 1) and Agustin Perez-Barahona (INRA) :
    A Spatial Dynamics Analysis of Pollution and Growth
  • Jeudi 29 mars 12:30-13:30
    Olivier Gergaud (University of Reims) :
    TBA
  • Jeudi 12 avril 12:30-13:30
    Emmanuelle Lavaine (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1) :
    Morbidity and Sulfur Dioxide : Evidence from French Strikes at Oil Refineries
  • Jeudi 10 mai 12:30-13:30
    Lisa Anoulies (Sciences Po) :
    The Border Tax Adjustment : An Effective Compliance Mechanism
  • Jeudi 24 mai 12:30-13:30
    Lorenzo Cerda Planas (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1) :
    Environmental Policy : An Evolutionary Perspective
  • Vendredi 8 juin 12:30-13:30
    Esther Delbourg (Ecole Polytechnique) :
    The impact of water availability and weather variations on cooperation between African riparian countries
  • Jeudi 21 juin 12:30-13:30
    TBA

Archives

  • Jeudi 16 février 12:30-13:30
    Vicente Ruiz (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1) :
    Wrong Incentives and Groundwater Overdraft in Mexico
    Abstract
    Groundwater overdraft has become a key topic in the environmental agenda of Mexico. In the past three decades the number of over exploited aquifers has tripled, going from 35 in 1975 to a 100 in 2009. Despite that these overdrafted aquifers only account for 15% of the total number of aquifers in the country, in 2009 they provided more than 50% of all the groundwater supply.
    Some of the main reasons that could explain the unsustainable use of groundwater in Mexico are the lack of law enforcement, the inadequate pricing mechanism of groundwater, and the electricity subsidies reducing the extraction costs faced by irrigation activities.
    The objective of this study is then to empirically model the technology of irrigation activities in overexploited aquifers in Mexico. Through the use of microdata, this study intends to provide a better understanding on how the price of electricity affects the consumption of water and other key production inputs at the farm level.
  • Jeudi 2 février 12:30-13:30
    MSE, salle B2.2 (please note the change of room)
    Nicola Coniglio (University of Bari, SNF-Bergen) :
    Climate Variability and International Migration : What are the Links ?
    Abstract
    Climate change and international migration flows are phenomena which attract a great deal of attention from policymakers, researchers and the general public around the globe. Are these two phenomena related ? Is migration an adaptation strategy to sudden or gradual changes in climate ? In this paper our aim is to investigate whether countries that are affected by climatic anomalies with respect to long-term mean experience, ceteris paribus, larger outmigration flows toward rich OECD countries in the period 1990-2001. Contrarily to the bulk of existing studies we use a macro approach and analyse the determinants of international bilateral migration flows employing an augmented gravity-like equation and test the relevance of climate anomalies with respect to long-term average temperature and precipitation. One important novelty in our approach is the explicit consideration in the empirical analysis of the heterogeneous nature of climate shocks, i.e. positive vs. negative variations of temperature and precipitations ; non linear and threshold effects of climate shocks. Our results show that the occurrence of climate anomalies in origin countries might have heterogeneous impacts on cross-border outmigration flows depending on the type and size of the shocks and on certain socio-economic characteristics of the country (level of development, past immigration history, vulnerability of the agricultural sector).
  • Jeudi 19 janvier 12:30-13:30
    Hélène Ollivier (UC Berkeley) :
    Climate change : who will take the heat ?
    Abstract
    Climate change policies can regulate greenhouse gases (GHG) at a variety of points in the product cycle of fossil fuels : from fossil fuel suppliers based on the carbon content of extracted fossil resources to final emitters at the point of energy generation. This paper develops a general equilibrium model with trade between fossil resource abundant countries and capital abundant countries to show that the distributional impacts of a climate policy differ depending on where emission rights are allocated along the GHG supply chain. The allocation of rights among different entities along this supply chain impacts both factor prices and each country’s endowments, hence it impacts the trade equilibrium. We provide an illustration of the distributional impacts of climate policy in the FPE equilibrium by comparing four allocation rules that are based on grandfathering or on equity concerns.
  • Jeudi 5 janvier 12:30-13:30
    Chantal Toledo (UC Berkeley) :
    Natural Resource Rents and Redistribution : The Effect of Mining - Based Transfers on Local Populations in Peru
    Abstract
    For over a decade, the Peruvian government has transferred 50% of mining firms’ income tax back to local governments as a compensation for the exploitation of mineral resources in their jurisdiction. Given the important amount of transfers done by the central government to the local governments (5.6 billion USD or 3.6% of the 2010 Peruvian GDP at current prices), this money should have been invested and had some effect on local populations. However, district-level statistics suggest that this is not the case. Using survey-based district and household data, I test the impact of mining transfers on district, income and educational outcomes. I find that the mining canon does increase districts’ revenue and that an increase in 1 sol from the mining canon increases the net executed income of a district by 0.97 soles. Mining transfers do translate into some positive and significant effects at the district level. However, there seems to be little trickling down at the household and individual level. From the several individual and household measures of income and education studied, I find a positive and significant effect only for children’s school registration after a 1 and 5 year lag from when the transfer took place. Possible channels for little or no effects of the mining canon include corruption, lack of spending capacity of districts and spending on other outcomes.
  • Jeudi 1er décembre 2011 12:30-13:30
    Natacha Raffin (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) :
    Can educational subsidies alleviate the demographic pressure on environmental resources ? The role of reproductive externalities
    Abstract
    In this paper, we formalize the idea that educational subsidies can be used to alleviate the demographic pressure on environmental resources. If the environment is an argument of social utility and there are negative externalities linked to reproductive choices, we show that subsidizing education might be an alternative to taxing pollution and/or births, in order to achieve the social optimum. Using a dynamic OLG model where parents face a trade-off between fertility and own education, we can accordingly determine the optimal educational policy, taking into account that : (i) more educated parents tend to have lower fertility, (ii) fertility entrains a cumulative kind of externality, (iii) higher education, via larger income and consumption, would however put more pressure on resources.
  • Jeudi 3 novembre 2011 12:30-13:30
    Basak Bayramoglu (INRA-AgroParisTech) :
    Fishery Resources and Trade Openness : Evidence from Turkey
    Co-author : Jean-François Jacques (Université Paris-Dauphine)
    Abstract
    In this study, we investigate whether increased trade intensity puts more pressures on fishery resources. In particular, we use an individual panel data approach to measure the effects of trade openness on fish harvests in Turkey. We take the case of 57 fish species observed from 1996 to 2009 in Turkish seas. We estimate Turkish fish harvests in terms of the relative importance of openness to trade as well as in terms of biological characteristics, in addition to economic and technological factors. Indeed, our preliminary empirical findings reveal that the openness to trade had a significant and positive impact on fish harvests. These results suggest that further openness to trade would put more pressure on Turkey’s fishery resources. Furthermore, the price of fish and the mean maximum length of fish species had a significant effect on fish harvests. These results could contribute to the ongoing debate over the potential effects of trade openness on fishery resources.
  • Jeudi 13 octobre 2011 12:30-13:30
    salle B2.1 Maison des Sciences Economiques
    Renaud Coulomb (Paris School of Economics) :
    Optimal Investments in Low-Carbon Energy Plants and the Extraction of Fossil Fuels
    Abstract
    The present paper focuses on the optimal energy use and timing of investments in low-carbon energy plants when the carbon-emitting resource is exhaustible. The regulation takes the form of a cap over the atmospheric carbon stock. Capturing CO2 from fossil fuels burning or using solar energy require investments in specific forms of capitals that depreciate trough time. The exhaustibility of the carbon-emitting resource leads to drastically different optimal investment paths for solar plants and CCS systems. With constant investments costs, it is never optimal to invest in solar plants before the ceiling starts to bind, whereas investing in CCS systems before the ceiling is optimal if their depreciation is slow and the carbon-emitting resource scarce enough. Investments in solar plants start to maintain the consumption flow at a level determined by the characteristics of the solar energy market. Both options can be used simultaneously when the carbon stock is at the ceiling, before the fossil fuel gets exhausted.
  • Du 29 juin 2011 09:00 au 2 juillet 2011 00:00
    EAERE
    Abstract
    Pas de séance jeudi 30/6, congrès annuel de l’EAERE (29 juin au 2 juillet).
  • Jeudi 16 juin 2011 14:00-15:30
    Nicola Coniglio (FEEM and University of Bari) REPORTE A L’AUTOMNE :
    Climate variability, extreme weather events and international migration
  • Jeudi 5 mai 2011 14:00-15:30
    Maison des Sciences Economiques, salle B.2.2
    Emmanuelle Lavaine (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1) :
    Does information about risk of pollution drive up demand for health care ?
  • Du 2 au 3 mai 2011
    Maison des Sciences Economiques
    Les 21e Rencontres de l’Environnement
  • Jeudi 7 avril 2011 14:00-15:30
    Maison des Sciences Economiques, salle B.2.2
    Esther Regnier (Paris School of Economics, University of Paris 1) :
    Management of a Fishery using the Stochastic Viability Approach : a simple case-study
  • Jeudi 10 mars 2011 14:00-17:00
    Maison des Sciences Economiques, salle 114
    Thomas Lyon (University of Michigan) :
    Corporate environmental responsability and the power of NGOs
    Abstract
    Thomas Lyon, Professeur d’économie à Michigan University, directeur de l’Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, donnera 3 cours ouverts aux étudiants de M2, aux doctorants et aux chercheurs sur « Corporate environmental responsability and the power of NGOs » aux dates suivantes :
     lundi 28 février, 9h-12h, salle S3
     lundi 7 mars, 9h-12h, salle S3
     jeudi 10 mars, 14h-17h, salle 114
  • Jeudi 10 février 2011 14:00-15:30
    MSE, salle B2.2
    Denis Claude (CES, CNRS) :
    Regulation of Brown and Green Firms : the case of irrational changes in lifestyles

    1 document à télécharger

  • Jeudi 27 janvier 2011 14:00-15:30
    MSE, salle B.3.1
    Jean-Philippe Nicolaï (Collège de France) :
    An upper bound for free allowances
  • Jeudi 13 janvier 2011 14:00-15:30
    MSE, salle B2.2
    Angels Xabadia (University of Girona) :
    Adaptation Benefits and Mitigation Costs of Forest Carbon Sequestration and the Effects of Climate Change
    Abstract
    Science collected a large amount of evidence demonstrating that climate change is actually taking place. Since the change in climatic conditions will affect the vital cycles of trees, one needs to adapt the optimal management of forests in order to make the best use of them from the social point of view. Moreover, climate change may also affect the potential role of forests to act as carbon sinks. Consequently, the estimation of carbon sequestration costs can only be evaluated correctly if changes in the climatic conditions are considered. This paper develops a bioeconomic model to analyze the optimal adaptation and mitigation strategies for forests in the presence of climatic changes.
  • Vendredi 17 décembre 2010 10:30-12:30
    MSE, salle 114
    Georges Zaccour (HEC Montreal) :
    L’application de la théorie des jeux dynamiques en économie de l’environnement
    Abstract
    This will be a two-hour ’mini’ lecture surveying the field of dynamic games applied to environmental problems, by one of the specialists in the field.
  • Du 9 décembre 2010 12:00 au 10 décembre 2010 17:00
    Rencontres de l’environnement :
    LAMETA, Montpellier
  • Jeudi 2 décembre 2010 14:00-15:30
    Maison des Sciences Economiques, salle S2
    Djamel Kirat (Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1) :
    Do Carbon Prices Cause Electricity Price Stability ?
  • Du 18 novembre 2010 08:00 au 19 novembre 2010 19:00
    Environment and Natural Resources Management in Developing and Transition Economies :
    International conference, Clermont-Ferrand
  • Jeudi 4 novembre 2010 14:00-15:30
    MSE, salle B2.1
    Guillaume Commenge (EEP et Université Paris 1) :
    Measuring sustainability when population changes

    1 document à télécharger

  • Jeudi 21 octobre 2010 14:30-16:00
    MSE, salle B2.2
    Sophie Bernard (EEP, Université Paris 1) :
    Transboundary movements of waste

    1 document à télécharger

  • Jeudi 7 octobre 2010 14:00-15:30
    Maison des Sciences Economiques, S17
    Romain Perez (CES) :
    International trade and greenhouse gas emissions : an intertemporal analysis (1976-2002)

    1 document à télécharger

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